Chapter 8: The Strange Girl

The old man paused and then continued: 'Although I thought it was incredible, I didn't take it too seriously, for I was old and dizzy, and I thought my ideas were ridiculous. When I came back from grocery shopping, I saw my wife coming out of the house in the community, her eyes were straight out, and I asked her: Why are you going? As if she hadn't heard, she walked on, and to no avail of a few questions, I stepped forward to pull her, and her strength was much greater than usual, and she threw me off at once. I think I'll follow you and see what you do. After walking for a while, she stretched out her arms and legs in one place, and the movements were so strange that I couldn't stop them, so I called my son. It didn't take long, the son and daughter-in-law came, the daughter-in-law is usually very filial, and the relationship with her is also very harmonious, there was something she was not happy about before, the daughter-in-law persuaded it immediately, this time the daughter-in-law's mother, mother's non-stop, no use at all, and finally we worked together to press her into the car and pull her back. When we were about to get to the community, she came to her senses and asked us why we were here and where we had just been. It's really laughable. When I got home, I was in pain...... Later, the treatment was useless, and the daughter-in-law said, why don't you take my mother to live with us for a while, we live in a high building, maybe there are unclean things in this old house! As a result, when he was taken to his son's house, he didn't get sick for three days, and after three days, he still did the same. This time, I walked a few more floors, and my whole body was even more sore after I got sick. I had to pick it up again. I asked, 'Is there anything strange happening to her every time she is sick?' The old man said that every time he got sick was in the afternoon, and he first ate when he got sick, no matter what it was, as long as it was in the mouth, he picked it up and put it in his mouth, didn't you hear it! The sound of biting turnips, rattling, like the sound of animals eating, makes people frightened to listen to it. After eating, I went out, and I went to the same place every time, and then I danced......''Is there anything else weird going on?'' I asked. 'Yes! He took a sip of his tea and said, 'Then I remembered that when I saw that girl, could it be that it had something to do with the girl who looked the same way?' With this in mind, I hid myself in the place where I had last encountered it, and carefully watched everyone who passed by. Sure enough, I saw the girl again. I couldn't see it very clearly this time because I was afraid of getting too close and being spotted, but I always remember where I saw something like this in my brain! So, I drove to my father-in-law's house, my father-in-law and mother-in-law were no longer alive, and I saw the suspicious photo in the photo mirror of my uncle's house. So, I took the photo with my phone, took it to the photo studio and enlarged it, and then took it home to show it to my wife. She laughed when she saw it, and said; This is what my aunt paid me to take pictures in the photo studio when I came to the city! At that time, color photos were still a rarity! This dress was also made of cloth that my aunt bought for me, it was very fashionable at the time, and today it looks like a big stupid girl, hahahaha...... 'I was beating a drum in my heart at the time, she became an orphan in the earthquake at the age of fifteen, she was adopted by her uncle, and I never heard that she had an aunt? She said to come to the city, she already lived in the city, what else did she come to the city? I was also confused at the time and didn't dig deeper. Just the next day, drive the car to the place where I last met the girl. I hid in the car and took the photo, carefully staring at the flow of people walking across the street, and sure enough, it came! This time I saw it clearly! It's my wife, exactly like the photo, hairstyle, clothes, exactly the same! I almost broke down! How could there be such a thing, could it be that she was hiding that I had an illegitimate daughter? No, judging from the age of this girl, she is only fourteen or fifteen years old, if this is the case, when this child was born, my son was already 10 years old, and the two of them lived together, and they were together every day, and they could hide other things, how could they secretly give birth to a child, I don't know! I asked her when she was sober, and she thought it was incredible! I'm really running out of brains. ’”

"I said to them, 'You two came to see me, do you have to tell me the truth?' If you don't tell me the truth, and you still want me to solve the problem, isn't it unreasonable? The old man swore that everything he said was true, and it was never made up! I pointed to the patient and said, 'You're not Xiao Fenzi, you're Xiao Lingzi!' The old man was stunned at the time, and he didn't know what to do, "What little Lingzi?" We've lived most of our lives, this is my wife Dong Xuefen! I ignored the old man's words, and stared at the patient, who was stunned for a moment, and then began to cry. I paused and said, 'I don't mean to accuse you of impersonating someone else's identity, because after all, the status of a commodity grain has many advantages in those years. However, let's say in good conscience, if you use someone else's identity, you must at least collect the corpse from others! The patient cried and said, 'My brother and I came in a car to look for her, but by the time we got here, her body was gone!' ''I don't blame you for being taken away by the corpse collection team, so you don't burn a piece of paper for more than 40 years? Do you know how much she has suffered as a lonely soul down there, penniless? I said. I was young at the time, I didn't believe in superstition, I thought that burning paper was just a place to mourn, but it didn't matter what it was, and I didn't know where she was buried, so I didn't think much about it! The patient sighed. I sighed and said, 'If she had been sane, she wouldn't have been able to get into you, as evidenced by all these years.' Now she has lost part of her soul, and she can't help herself, and she belongs to the unintentional. In fact, she just has the heart, and it is not an exaggeration to experience the life that should belong to her! Then the old man said to me, 'I seem to understand this, this ......,' and I interrupted him, saying, 'Let me tell you the ins and outs!' Before 1976, there was a pair of cousins, the two looked very similar, and the two were the same age, and there was a slight difference in the birth month, and the relatives often admitted that they were mistaken. One of these two sisters is in the suburbs and has an agricultural hukou, and the other is in the city, which is an urban hukou, that is, commercial grain. The relationship between the two sisters is very good, and the younger sister in the countryside imitates her sister everywhere from dress to hairstyle. Catch up with this year, rural schools pilot summer vacation (in that era, the countryside was wheat autumn, autumn vacation), during the holiday the rural little Lingzi came to the city to play with her cousin, at that time the housing was tight, Lingzi's brother-in-law knew someone from a nearby construction company, so he borrowed the temporary house downstairs and arranged for two children to live downstairs. This temporary house is a simple house built with bricks stacked and not plastered, and covered with asbestos tiles. Fortunately, it was summer, there was no problem with cold, and it was enough to shelter from the rain, so the two sisters got together, and they talked until the middle of the night. On this night, there was an earthquake and the temporary building collapsed. The sisters fled in panic, wearing each other's clothes by mistake. At that time, the temporary building was next to the high-rise building, and the people who escaped rushed in the direction away from the high-rise building, and the two sisters were scattered by the flow of people. After dawn, my sister couldn't find her sister, and she was worried about the safety of her relatives at home, so she followed her memory in the direction of her home. Not bad, finally got home. When I got home, I was immediately scolded by my father, 'You ran away by yourself, regardless of your sister!' She's the same age as you, and her relatives are gone, so I don't know if she's hurt or not...... 'The old man asked his son to ride to the city to look for him immediately, and the son came back after he arrived and looked for him. Then, it was to send the relatives who died in the countryside here, and three days later, the old man asked his son to ride a bicycle with Reiko to look for it, and this time he found it, but the cousin was already a corpse. The brothers cried for a while, and some neighbors came to persuade them. Because her cousin was wearing her cousin's clothes, the neighbors thought it was her sister who died, but Reiko only cried and didn't refute it. At that time, the brothers did not have the ability to get their sister's body, so they went home to find someone. When the two-wheeled cart came to look for her for the second time, the body of this sister had already been collected by the corpse collection team as an ownerless corpse. After coming back, the scheming old man had a plan, since everyone thought that it was Lingzi who died, he simply calculated it, and from today Lingzi was Fenzi, and said to the outside world that Fenzi's relatives were killed in the earthquake and were adopted by his uncle, and he also called the second elder Mom and Dad, so that he could become commercial food like a trick. On the sly! Later, she made up a formality to continue studying in the countryside, and after graduation, Fenzi's parents' unit had a policy to let this fake Fenzi take over as a worker until she fell in love, married you and retired! Originally, I didn't want Fenzi to be reincarnated for some reason after her death, and she had been cruising in Tangshan for 40 years, until later due to an accident, she lost part of her soul and was in an unconscious state, so she instinctively returned to the place where she died, and then unconsciously got on your wife's body! Just because she was on the school basketball team before she died, she trained after two classes every afternoon, in the past, because she was close to home, she always ran home to eat something after two classes and then went to school for training, and after she got up, she subconsciously went home on time to eat, which is why your wife eats first after every illness. As for the voice, after all, her soul is not directing her own body, and it is not very smooth. Then, she will instinctively go to the training place to do marching exercises, and the hands you see dancing, that is marching exercises! It's just that it's not your own body, it's also ineffective, and if you can't do it properly, you will look like a weird move! In the past, Mr. Yin and Yang and Taoist priests were helpless against this kind of ghost who lost her soul, and she couldn't listen to persuasion! So your wife's illness is helpless.......'"